Former England opening batsman Geoffrey Boycott slammed Ben Stokes and his men for their dramatic behaviour towards the end of Day 5 at Manchester when India refused their offer for a draw.

“What goes around comes around. England were gobby enough when it suited them, so you can’t blame India for wanting to stay on and allow two batsmen who had worked their socks off to reach their hundreds,” Boycott noted in his Telegraph column.

“If you give it, like England do, then you have to be able to take it. I could hear them through the stump mics chipping away at India so why should they be nice to them and agree to go off when England have had enough?”

Boycott applauded the guts of Indian batters Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar and added: “These India players are tough cookies. They do not take a backward step. There is no way I would have let anyone drag me off on 89 after I had worked hard all day to save the game for my team.Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar deserved their hundreds. They left the ball well, played with the full face of the bat and defended their wickets at all costs. Well done.”

Boycott also spoke about the sledging and said: “I’m not sure what it is with modern players. You hear a lot of them mouthing off. It never really happened when I was playing. It will carry on at the Oval and India will go there thinking they got a win at Old Trafford.”